Crazy clan-wide event idea

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YoSpankDawg

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This is either going to be dumb...or brilliant.

I am sure that somewhere in the 33,000+ people in eGO there has to be at least a small handful of married or boyfriend-girlfriend couples...what if we held a Couples Tournament on the week before or after Valentine's Day?

Example:
Monday - BC2 mini-scrims
Tuesday - CSS mini-scrims
Wednesday - DoD mini-scrims
Thursday - INS mini-scrims
Friday - TF2 mini-scrims

Participate in what they can/want to and we declare "Best (name of game) Couple" and then "Best eGO couple" for overall rankings.



An even better suggestion (credit goes to Bad Brain when I mentioned this first one) is perhaps just having a Family Tournament. Maybe a Father-Son one for Father's Day (oh come on, you know that would be cool to watch), or a just plain family one for any eGO members who are related.

Thoughts? Ideas? Suggestions? Also throw out some couple and/or family combos out there in the eGO world that you know, cause I have no idea if there are 3 or 300.
 
Fear Feathers said:
You should post this in the drop box my friend
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Ahh good ol' Forum Graveyard (if Leadership doesn't like that description, perhaps they shouldn't keep adding to its reputation as such lol)...I have found that if you post an idea, you get met with a whole host of "You have an interesting idea, but you haven't thought out ever step of the way for us yet. How will it happen? Who will run it? Will people even be interested? What is the average rainfall in the Amazon Basin?"

SO, before I dropbox items, I work on covering all of my bases--figuring out the answers to all of the questions (including seeing if people are interested and, in this case, if we really have that many couples/families) they have so it's nice and easy.
 
Benefits of this event:
1) Increased members (you gonna tell me some brothers or dads or cousins or something won't join because of this--then we have the chance to keep them around?)
2) Increased inter-divisional team growth and collaboration (if you're playing on games you have but hardly play, you'll meet people)
3) No internal conflict (yes, it is grouped off competition, but it has to be assumed that your family ties are stronger than your eGO ones anyways, so there is no "my division/team is better than yours"...aka it doesn't create subdivisions of eGO)
4) Special, new, large, multi-game events are fun and awesome and cool to watch take place. I wouldn't even be involved in this (I have no family who games) but I am excited about the possibilities for it.
5) Heck, nothing wrong with a good, Hallmark, father-son moment, eh? haha
 
I think it is a good idea but how many people here both have a bf/gf that ALSO games AND has the specified game....like a lot of girls i have dated even if they did play games they were mostly console gamers =/ so not that it isnt a good idea i just think it would ultimately fail due to lack of participation
 
Naku_vamp said:
I think it is a good idea but how many people here both have a bf/gf that ALSO games AND has the specified game....like a lot of girls i have dated even if they did play games they were mostly console gamers =/ so not that it isnt a good idea i just think it would ultimately fail due to lack of participation
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We seem to have a bunch of people in DoD:S who are related to other people so I figured I'd expand to see if the same thing happens in other divisions.

I was originally just gonna throw it out there for a DoD event, but...we don't have enough clan-wide events in my opinion.
 
I had never played an online game in my life before my husband introduced me to TF2, and I wasn't particularly interested in getting started (at first, anyway). It was hard for me to even get the hang of MOVING my character, let alone moving and jumping and shooting at the same time.... :facewall:

It grew on me, though, and three+ years later I'm still hanging around TF2 and enjoying it - so introduce your bf/gf/spouse/family member to your games! Get them a Steam account and a copy of your favorite. They might surprise you by picking it up and liking it; I even surprised MYSELF on that count. ;)
 
Gypsy said:
I had never played an online game in my life before my husband introduced me to TF2, and I wasn't particularly interested in getting started (at first, anyway). It was hard for me to even get the hang of MOVING my character, let alone moving and jumping and shooting at the same time.... :facewall:

It grew on me, though, and three+ years later I'm still hanging around TF2 and enjoying it - so introduce your bf/gf/spouse/family member to your games! Get them a Steam account and a copy of your favorite. They might surprise you by picking it up and liking it; I even surprised MYSELF on that count. ;)
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Yup, see? It's a good thing! We could get more bf/gf/spouse/family members involved by doing something like this.

And Gypsy...do you think you might be interested in an event such at this? Finally being the first person to respond who it actually applies to, I am curious so hear your opinions on it.
 
If i had family or girlfriend who was into PC gaming and had the games eGO supports, I would be interested. But I'm the only one who does PC gaming in my entire family. And not a single girl is into PC gaming at my school (Xbox and Black Ops and taken them. :facewall:) On my moms side of the family though, there is one other person who I know is kinda into PC. And he lives in Panama but he's a little to...uh afraid of putting stuff on his computer...:cursing:
 
YoSpankDawg said:
Yup, see? It's a good thing! We could get more bf/gf/spouse/family members involved by doing something like this.

And Gypsy...do you think you might be interested in an event such at this? Finally being the first person to respond who it actually applies to, I am curious so hear your opinions on it.
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If I were eligible to participate, this would be something I'd come to (but only on Friday, since TF2 is the only game I've got). Since there might not be enough couples to fill a server and have a fun game, it might just be something like a Couples Night, where everyone can play but couples have preference for joining the server (or something), and there's no random team scramble thing where you end up on the opposite team from your sweetheart. :)
 
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